Friday, May 18, 2012

Roberto Picchi, Italy

Roberto Picchi - Raggi di Sole. 1977 Fonit-Cetra.

Midwest Mike just sent in a bunch of goodies to consider. Before I get to that stack, here is a surprising album that fell through the cracks.

Picchi's sole work is technically listed as a singer-songwriter album, but with most of the
tracks exceeding 7 minutes, you can bet that instrumental progressive
rock music is also being employed. Acoustic guitar, violin, piano, sax,
flute and hand percussion lead the instrumental parade. Comparisons to
the best of Claudio Rocchi, Mauro Pagani and Emilio Locurcio wouldn't be
out of place. A late era Fonit-Cetra release, and comes at the tail end
of the original Italian progressive rock movement. One of the very few
Italian progressive rock albums still not on CD. Features a wonderful
gatefold cover. A natural choice for BTF.

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Key to the Priority codes:

Priority 1: Amongst the greatest albums ever made. Almost criminal that it is not available on CD.

Priority 2: An excellent album. One of the greatest albums still not on CD.

Priority 3: A very good album, and worthy of a CD reissue.

No Priority: The rest, which range from good to terrible and everything in between. Many of these albums are borderline Priority 3, and should not be presumed to be poor efforts. I had to draw the line somewhere.